Excited to watch @independentsage.bsky.social's @martinmckee.bsky.social giving evidence at module 7 of the #CovidInquiry today on "Test, trace and isolate". www.youtube.com/@UKCovid-19I...

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

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A few months agoTrump was threatening to send Zuckerberg to prison “for life” if he interfered in the election Now Zuckerberg is funding Trump This is how it works www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Some useful BlueSky tools: * Find old Twitter peeps sky-follower-bridge.dev * TweetDeck equivalent: deck.blue * Delete old posts: bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup * Find accounts to follow (that your followers follow) bsky-follow-finder.theo.io * See what lists you're on, who is blocking you clearsky.app

Here are 25 SUGGESTIONS on how anyone can contribute to a BETTER CITY FOR PEOPLE (only ONE of them is voting in local elections!) *officially these are #NewYearsResolutions for better cities that I wrote about in @FastCompany.com but who cares if its a bit early www.fastcompany.com/90287193/25-...

Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...

Had a marvellous chat about #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda with the amazing @emmalbriant.bsky.social on the #DataRevolution podcast datarevolution.tech/2024/12/emma...

Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s.

Incredibly proud of this. The story of the BBC from its birth to the present day. It's the story of serious-minded humane people doing serious-minded humane things.

Ahoy, mateys! 🌈⚓ Poland’s hoisted the equality flag high, criminalizin’ anti-LGBT hate speech! 🏳️‍🌈⛵ notesfrompoland.com/2024/11/28/p...

The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion. The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ. Exempt from all.

very much looking forward to Farage, Oakeshott, Hartley-Brewer and the rest demanding these idiots get the same jail time (5 years!) as the Just Stop Oil protestors… #FarmersProtest #jso

If anyone wants to use me as a talking head or rent a quote I suggest the following format: "You were an economist at the BoE?' "Yes" "At the same time as Reeves?" "Yes" "Can you confirm that she was an economist?" "Yes" "How can you be sure?" "She wrote lots of economics and I read it."

No-one will stop Putin with phone calls. The attack last night, one of the biggest in this war, has proved that telephone diplomacy cannot replace real support from the whole West for Ukraine. The next weeks will be decisive, not only for the war itself, but also for our future.

Here’s my Bylines starter pack. This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…) Please follow & share. go.bsky.app/RWVEKv

Please welcome @theneweuropean.bsky.social on Bluesky 🎉

Hey another bit of Bluesky tech for anyone new here. This place doesn't have bookmarks yet, but if you want to make sure you don't forget anything you can reply to the post with this 📌 Then add this feed to your home page and it'll show you all the post you pinned bsky.app/profile/did:...

Republic now

Obvs, 99% of me wants Harris to be a great PoTUS who heals divisions, restores legal norms and leads the US back to prosperity and normality. But I'd be lying if I said there isn't 1% of me that wants her to arrest All The Trumps, shutter X and cancel every Musk or Bezos gov't contract. #DarkKamala

HE MADE IT!

When we complained that Liz Truss' think tank was breaking charity law the Charity Commission refused to act. After we made it very clear we would sue it caved and has agreed to investigate the IEA.

Alright, here is a timelapse of the most remarkably beautiful and electric storm I have ever chased, almost exactly one year ago tonight in central Oklahoma. This is why I chase.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #966,074!

After trying to see it through the Musk era, I’m wrapping Twitter up over the next week. The aggro & toxicity has all got too much. I did give it my best but it’s started to affect my mental health & the place has been poisoned by racists, anti-LGBT+ nutters & Muskbots. Blue Skies ahead (hopefully!)

Jesus fucking christ finally someone actually tested AI performance before assuming that it would do everything faster and better than a human for cheaper, setting targets accordingly, and letting staff burn themselves out

Hallelujah!!!

Some exciting news: We have made The Onion's historical front page archive, dating back to 1900, available and free for all. Explore history with us, starting with this day in 1932: theonion.com/front-page-a...

I'm given to understand that this young entertainer is reasonably well off, and that perhaps Trump might want to *not* share fake images of her, lest she sicc many expensive lawyers onto him and sue him into oblivion.

"Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group," Tufton Street's "Net Zero Watch". Mhm. www.desmog.com/2024/08/19/k...

My name is Alex Andreou and I approved this message. I have been watching too much US election coverage on American networks, haven’t I.

You know, you can give a man a fish AND then teach him to fish afterward if he still needs that. There’s no need to be condescending about it.

When Donald Tusk threw out Poland’s far right populists, he also threw out their creatures in the state media. UK Labour should do the same.

I want the Tories lower and I want the LDs as the official opposition. An LD opposition might encourage Starmer to be his better self rather than scrape the barrel bottom.

Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoider, escape a £14m penalty. He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel and sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here’s our report: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/19/b...

Guest Substack post debunking the latest poor academic paper that is fueling anti-vax conspiracy theories by actuary Stuart McDonald open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Tucker Carlson launches his show on Russian state controlled TV. Completing his shift from Russian state backed propaganda - to - Russian state backed propaganda. ...What did you think you were watching? www.newsweek.com/tucker-carls...

Russia 24 is dubbing and broadcasting Tuckers show in Russia.

Spain's electricity mix in March: 29% wind 15.1% solar 1.4% bioenergy 22.1% hydro 17.3% nuclear 13.7% gas & related 1.1% coal -> 85% not from fossil fuels Ember data

Some people actually still claim "Sheep are great for nature." That's total bull. The far side of this fence is grazed by sheep, and it's barren. My side isn't, and it's FULL of native wildflowers, tree saplings, ferns, + flying insects. #rewilding 🌎

And another one for the developing pattern. Survation did the best LE polling by the way. Westminster voting intention LAB: 44% (-) CON: 24% (-2) LDEM: 10% (-1) REF: 8% (-) GRN: 7% (+3) via Survation, 09 May

I have just voted for a Labour Police and Crime Commissioner! I live in a Tory constituency and found that extremely satisfying.. 😂🌹

That's the Tory dream. A hollowed out state, privatised everything, minimal regulation, and everyone just sinks or swims. Of course, the system would be rigged so the Tories won't even have to swim. They'll be living it up on their private yachts.

Happy Earth Day! Every day should be earth day 💙🌎💚 Let's take good care of it. There is no Planet B 💛

“I felt like I’d been punched,” she says. “It felt really physical. I felt really sick, and disorientated. Like we’d really, really fucked up. And we had. That was the sadness of it: that we didn’t run a very good campaign.” I felt just the same after that wretched Brexit vote. I still do.😢

Zelenskyi commented on his visit to the front today -- This war is black and white, there are no halftones in it, everything is obvious. We are on our own land. We are protecting people's lives. We are stopping the occupier, who can sow only ruins and violence, only evil. t.me/noel_reports...